Kalanchoe uniflora
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Kalanchoe uniflora is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe uniflora is a perennial , epiphytic , herbaceous plant. Their bare, slender, green shoots are prostrate or climbing and take root at their nodes . The very thick, fleshy, bare, bright green leaves are almost sessile to stalked. The slender petiole is 1 to 2.5 millimeters long. Your obovate, circular, round to elongated leaf blade is 0.4 to 3.5 inches long and 0.4 to 1.5 inches wide. Its tip is blunt to rounded, the base truncated to wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is tiny notched, in the upper part broadly two- to four-toothed and occasionally almost three-lobed.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of one to three-flowered cymes . The brown, hairy inflorescence stalk is 5 to 15 millimeters long. The pendulous flowers are on thread-like, thinly downy-haired, purple, 5 to 15 millimeter long pedicels . The green calyx is sparsely glandular and long-haired. The calyx tube is 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters long. The egg-shaped, slightly pointed, thorn-pointed calyx lobes are 2 to 4 millimeters long. The urn-shaped-tubular to urn-shaped corolla is finely glandular-long-haired to bald. The bright red to red-violet corolla tube is 11 to 19 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped, blunt, thorn-pointed corolla lobes are 3.5 to 4.5 millimeters long and 3 to 6 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached below the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are 1.2 to 1.4 millimeters long. The linear to oblong linear, sanded-out nectar flakes have a length of 1 to 1.6 millimeters and are about 0.6 millimeters wide. The carpel has a length of 6 to 11 millimeters. The stylus is 6.5 to 12 millimeters long.
The elongated seeds reach a length of about 0.6 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe uniflora is common in the north-west and north of Madagascar in forests and heather-like vegetation at altitudes of 1000 to 2000 meters.
The first description as Kitchingia uniflora by Otto Stapf was published in 1908. Raymond-Hamet placed the species in the genus Kalanchoe in 1910 .
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe uniflora . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 185 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1908 . Number 6, 1908, pp. 258-259 ( online ).
- ↑ Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France . Volume 57, 1910, p. 52 ( online ).
Web links
- Photo with habit and flowers on Flickr